CEO/Professor
Dr. Janice Gobert (Ph.D., Cognitive Science, University of Toronto) is an esteemed science education expert with over 25 years of experience and has executed over $25M in federal research funding. Dr. Gobert is also the CEO of a start-up company, Inq-ITS (www.inqits.com). As students engage in scientific inquiry, Inq-ITS uses patented AI algorithms to assess and scaffold in real-time all science practices, including their writing about science. Teachers get real-time reports and actionable alerts on their students’ performance, allowing them to change whole class instruction on the fly, do differentiated instruction, or support students 1:1.
Janice is a Professor of Learning Sciences and Educational Psychology in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. Before joining Rutgers, she was the Co-Director of the Learning Sciences and Technologies graduate program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2005-2015), and a Senior Research Scientist at the Concord Consortium (1999-2005).